There was a horrendous shooting
in a gay bar in Orlando where fifty are dead and there are another 53
injured. They need blood and people are volunteering,
particularly type O. The shooter was
Omar Metin and initially they thought it was an anti shooting because it was a
gay night club named “Pulse”. The
President came right out and called it a terrorist act, notably an Islamic
terrorist act. These commentators are
gung ho to say it was an ISIS terrorist act because “ISIS targets soft, gun
free targets”. Apparently he drove from
Ft St Lucy and there was some Terrorism Central located in Tampa, an hour’s
drive away, but the shooter didn’t go there.
Omar Metin’s father believes it was an anti gay shooting because his son
is mentally unstable and hates gays, and there are also a lot of gay pride
parades going on right now. Police are
still looking for witnesses even if they left before the shooting because they
still might have picked up on something.
Metin was born in 1986 and he’s 29 now and apparently “self radicalized”. There was an Islamic cleric who spoke this
morning who didn’t want us all to jump the gun as to the cause. According to KFI the cops have come under
criticism because the shooting started at 2:00 AM but there was a three hour
stand-off when hostages were taken. But
according to KFI there was no negotiation but it was just Omar mouthing off
your typical Islamic extremist rhetoric.
Fifty people are dead and another 53 are injured which makes it the
biggest shooting massacre of all time, even out-doing the Aurora, Colorado
theater shooting. There is speculation
he was using thirty round magazines. It
was an AR 15 he had a license for. So everything was legal. And
if it’s fifty calabre they he’d be shooting masses full of holes like Swiss
cheese. The man was under investigation
by the government three years ago. The
Orlando police came under criticism because they waited three hours to move in
and the thinking now among Law Enforcement is not to stall for time but to rush
in early. Of course KFI had to give us
the adage “The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”
so if there had been armed people in this night club the problem would be
handled a lot sooner. We are further
told by KFI that these shootings are not because of the accessability of guns. This KFI further says that people when it’s
happening to them are in a state of denial and think it must be part of the
loud music ambience. Apparently there
were three different D J’s blasting three different kinds of music.
In
the Belmont Creator beat out Destined by less than a nose coming from the
outside. Destined had been ahead. Lani came in third. “Cherry Wine” “Exagurator” and “Strateveri”
were other horses talked about as potential winners, but not today. It was a fast track and a warm day. Around here we’ve had June gloom overcast all
day.
There
is talk about Elizabeth Warren becoming Clinton’s vice president. But it may be “a bridge too far” because of
the gender issue. We all know the
progressive left loves her. I think
knowing Hillary’s ego, she’ll want someone she can dominate and that isn’t
Elizabeth. It’s also said that Warren
lacks the necessary experience in foreign affairs. Meanwhile Donald Trump has begun using a
teleprompter. Right now they have this
touch state map of red and blue states that automatically calculate the
electoral vote totals depending which states are turned red or blue. Where could I get a map like that? Meanwhile Mitt Romney is still making
speeches where he opposes Trump. The
Republican National Committee wants to coordinate more closely when Donald
Trump does his campaign attacks. The
smart thing for Republican congressmen to do is to not endorse Trump because
that way when he goes down in flames in the fall, they won’t lose their
congressional seats. This would be kind
of a reversal of what Obama feared in 2014 by not campaigning.
SELF CRITICISM: The question arises to
my blog readers how I can improve my blog postings. My readership suffers because I don’t do
simple things like check for spelling errors, or put links in when I want to
refer you to something prior I wrote. I
should also make my eleven blogs topic related so that when you do a search of
a word or topic you have a decent chance of finding it without having to go
through all eleven blogs. I also have
certain writing styles which can be annoying.
Often I have annoying changes in font.
Going back to June of 2010 I start off in great big font only to switch
to much smaller and less legible font. I
should know that the average person would just stop reading at this point. I also go off on tangential footnotes of
something in a prior posting which is more of a distraction to the current
topic- - rather than anything helpful a person would want to read. It’s my opinion that some bloggers repeat
themselves too often. I have the
opposite fault in that I don’t give enough detail to the topic I am currently
discussing, which might be something where I need to connect the dots for my readers - where I
fail to give sufficient background on whatever names I am discussing at the
moment. There is also the overall
problem, which may be the biggest factor of all- - of people’s short attention
span, which is probably less than 24 hours.
I find this trait very annoying.
Washington’s blog frequently refers you back to an article of five years
ago with no problem whatsoever. It’s not
as if all of the problems we had five or six years ago have been solved. A lot of them are just as relevant as they
were back when they were written.
Mohamed Ali’s funeral is relevant now, but one month from now our minds
will have faded and there will be another “trending topic”, which itself will
fade in another month. I need discipline
in writing my postings. That’s for
sure. But other people need discipline
in reading them. It would be helpful if
they came to my writings with an attitude of not “How much will I be titillated
or stroked today” but rather “What can I learn from this posting that someone
took the trouble to write?” Maybe that’s
too much to hope.
Last night the Warriors defeated the Cavileers
in Cleveland in game four 108 to 97. The
Cavileers were ahead during much of the game but the Warriors in the end showed
their clear dominance in a game that went later than most games- - maybe a
quarter to midnight in the Eastern Time zone.
So the Warriors are up three games to one. No team in the NFA finals has ever come back
from a three to one deficit. I didn’t
know that. I went for medication at 7:25
and the line was still long, back to the “front room” doors. The line proceeded slowly with Ida and it
took twenty minutes to get my medication at a quarter to eight. The line was still almost as long behind me
when Glenda and Patty got in. In the
morning I got medication from April and the line then wasn’t a problem. I went out to the bakery for coffee. I got a dollar fifty large cup because I need
to wake up in the mornings. I had KNX
radio on. “Some Girls” by the Rolling
Stones was out this date in 1978.
President Obama spoke on the economic problems of Puerto Rico. The significance is that the President made
it relevant to us- - by referring to them as American citizens just as we
are. But their economy hasn’t recovered
the way “ours” has (so he claims) So the
President wants a bi-partisan bill making its way through congress on
restructuring the debt of Puerto Rico, that won’t cost US tax players anything.
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